Astragalus rattanii

Rattan's milkvetch

Family: Fabaceae · Type: annual · Native

Rattan's milkvetch is a California native annual found in open, dry habitats at moderate elevations. Flowering from spring to early summer, this plant produces delicate pink-purple flowers with paler wing tips, ranging 7 to 12 millimeters long. Growing with decumbent to erect slender stems 4 to 30 centimeters tall, it has a sparse, often blackish-strigose appearance. Its compound leaves feature 5 to 13 leaflets, each 2 to 12 millimeters long, with broadly obovate shapes and blunt or slightly notched tips. The fruit is a narrow linear pod 15 to 57 millimeters long, ascending and tapered to a sharp beak.

California counties: Mendocino, Colusa, Lake

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.